Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I had ridden Ile de Bourbon for trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in all of his home gallops and also won on the colt in the King Edward VII stakes at Royal Ascot but when Piggott asked me had the horse made any improvement from then and before the big King George race I had to tell him that I was unaware of it just in case he might want to take over .
2 A forward has a sixth sense and from an early stage I realised I had the corner back in my pocket .
3 I found I had the best of both worlds .
4 Intended as well to improve the educational chances of children in the deprived inner cities , when first proposed they had the somewhat dubious appearance of being the outcome of a bright idea , one that would kill a variety of birds with the same stone : up with the inner cities ; , down with Local Authorities ; up with privatization ; down with education in the arts .
5 he said I 'm properly on the spot , so he , so the woman volunteered , she said well can I help you , I 've got my fortnight 's rent money here , so she let him have the rent money .
6 When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat .
7 built it and he built he had the Kirkwall Hotel , the Stenness Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and an hotel in in Shetland .
8 His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller .
9 Yet recognition of the difficulties in which the two papers found themselves had the apparent effect of making the Government and the party think more clearly about mass communications .
10 The Sister Constance , who was the then the principal sister there she let us have the field so we got entertainment laid on we invited a celebrity , I think our first celebrity was erm I think it was Lord and Lady and then each time we had a different one , we had entertainment the whole time we started , about half past two and then we had entertainment until six then we had an interval then we had entertainment till twelve o'clock I even took my piano down onto the field so that we could have music .
11 ‘ I never believed I had the front .
12 ‘ But when we came we had the fireplace taken out .
13 The three corpses I studied there had the noose placed in the same spot .
14 Ludicrously , Rangers believed they had the game already well won .
15 But the pope , who two years earlier had confirmed the forged privilege guaranteeing the existence of the monastic community at Canterbury , warily told him to have the matter of the primacy discussed in a provincial council in the presence of a papal legate .
16 By the use of these three methods Morgan believed he had the means with which to discover the history of marriage in human societies .
17 He shuffled around the lower reaches of the ATP Tour 's top 100 , consistently breaking the hearts of those who believed he had the potential to hit the big-time .
18 As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move .
19 The DoE believed it had the decision to join the 30 per cent Club ‘ in the bag ’ and briefed journalists to that effect .
20 One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait .
21 Even granted he had the power to sack her , that would not be the end of the world .
22 We just realised you had the flask . ’
23 If this happened you have the right to contest this in court and a court may decide to give you back parental rights .
24 ‘ After the disappointment of losing to Germany , we showed we had the guts to come back .
25 This had happened to Shona , whose boyfriend encouraged her to have the baby , and then left her , with the result that whenever any subsequent boyfriends have tried to get close , she becomes cold and distant , they can not understand and eventually leave her .
26 Many experts , however , reckoned they had the germ of a brilliant idea .
27 Blood tests confirmed he had the disease in December 1987 but he kept the tragic secret from his family for more than three years .
28 The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise .
29 ‘ The four children were not showing any signs of infection but during routine screening , which we carry out every week , we discovered they had the bacteria , ’ said a hospital spokeswoman .
30 The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman .
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